The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Timeless Prophet

• Interviews
• First transmission: 10.15 pm 18/3/79 BBC Radio 4
• Duration (whole programme): 45 minutes
• Presenter: Vernon Sproxton
• Producer: Peter Firth
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (presenter’s contributions only); IB’s contribution transcribed by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tape T2222W

Sir Isaiah Berlin at 70

• Interview for External Services Central Talks and Features (Magazines)
• Recording date: 29/5/79
• First transmission: 6/6/79? (processed, i.e. provided with a presentation script, 5/6/79)
• Producer: B J Waller
• Transcript: not at BBC Written Archives unless among unsorted material

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, ed. and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer (London, 1979: Hogarth Press; New York, 1980: Viking; Oxford, 1981: Oxford University Press; New York, 1982: Penguin; London, 1997: Pimlico; Princeton, 2001: Princeton University Press)

• reprints of Bib. refs. 58, 75, 108, 110, 114, 118, 121, 122, 134, 139, 152, 154, 161
• trans. Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese (in part), Polish, Serbian, Spanish

2nd ed., foreword by Mark Lilla (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

• adds an appendix containing relevant letters (Bib.278)
• foreword repr. as ‘Isaiah Berlin Against the Current’, New York Review of Books, 25 April 2013 (OA.1120)

View Document (below) for reviews of the 1st Edition

‘Einstein and Israel’, New York Review of Books, 8 November 1979, 13–18

• repr. of major part of contribution to Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (eds), Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, the Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (Princeton, 1982: Princeton University Press), 281–92
• repr. in Anthology: Selected Essays from Thirty Years of The New York Review of Books ([New York, 1993]: New York Review of Books)
• rerp. Personal Impressions
• trans. Hebrew, Russian

‘Professor Scouten on Herder and Vico’, Comparative Literature Studies 16 (1979), 141–5

Note on Lidiya Chukovsky, Zapiski ob Anna Akhmatovoi [Notes about Anna Akhmatova], i, 1938–1941 (Paris, 1976), in ‘In absentia: Some Books of the Year’, The Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 1979, 4

• View document below for PDF

Letter to Adam Podgorecki (on the intelligentsia), in Adam Podgorecki and Maria Los, Multi-Dimensional Sociology (London, Boston and Henley, 1979: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 315–16

• view document below for PDF

(with Lord Donaldson and Sir Claus Moser) ‘The Death of Walter Legge’ (letter), Financial Times, 27 March 1979, 27

• view document below for PDF

‘Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power’, published in Partisan Review 46 (1979), 337–58

• repr. in Against the Current and The Proper Study of Mankind
• See also 'El nacionalismo: descuido del pasado y poder actual’, Diálogos 14 no. 6 (November/December 1978), 10–17 (Bib.161)

Frans Boenders, ‘Wijsbegeerte, geschiedenis en vrijheid’ (Philosophy, history and freedom), on Russian Thinkers and Concepts and Categories, in Sprekend gedacht (Thinking out loud) (Bussum, 1980: Het Wereldvenster), 171–90

• broadcast on Belgian Radio, February 1979

Miriam Gross, ‘Art for Liberation's Sake’, Observer, 5 August 1979, 35

*Vernon Sproxton, ‘Reinhold Niebuhr: A Timeless Prophet’, Radio 4, 18 March 1979

[?], ‘Sir Isaiah Berlin at 70’, ‘External CTF (Magazines)’, [?] June 1979

• no recording or transcript survives?

Blumenfeld, Yorick, ‘Is Isaiah Berlin the Philosopher of the 1980s?’, International Herald Tribune, 28 December 1979, Weekend Supplement, pp. 7W and 10W

(in Hebrew) Eldad, Israel, ‘An Ironic Situation in Jerusalem: After the Award of the Jerusalem Prize to Professor Isaiah Berlin’, Yedioth Ahronoth, 15 June 1979, 11

• very critical of IB and Menachem Begin

d’Entrèves, Alessandro Passerin, ‘Obbligo politico e società aperta’, in id., Il palchetto assegnato agli statisti e altri scritti di varia politica (Milan, 1979: Franco Angeli)

Fyvel, Tosco R., ‘Isaiah Berlin at Seventy’, Jewish Chronicle, 1 June 1979, 15

Mazurek, Kaz, ‘Isaiah Berlin’s Philosophy of History: Structure, Method, Implications’, Philosophy and Social Criticism 6 (1979), 391–406 [API]

White, M., ‘Oughts and Cans’, The Idea of Freedom, ed. A. Ryan (Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press), 211–19

Jonathan Lieberson and Sidney Morgenbesser, ‘The Questions of Isaiah Berlin’, and Sidney Morgenbesser and Jonathan Lieberson, ‘The Choices of Isaiah Berlin’

• two articles, published in the New York Review of Books, 6 March 1980, 38–42, 20 March 1980, 31–6
• the first article reviews Against the Current, and this review continues in the second article, which also reviews Alan Ryan (ed.), The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin (Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press)